Mid-day Meal in Andhra Pradesh

Mid-Day Meal in
Andhra Pradesh
As a NGO in Visakhapatnam, Akshaya Patra started serving mid -day meal in Andhra
Pradesh in 2008. It has positively impacted over 20,000 children.

It has been a story of more than seven years since The AkshayaPatra Foundation began serving
mid-day meal in Andhra Pradesh. AkshayaPatra first made its advent as a NGO in
Visakhapatnam in October 2008. Catering to 82 government schools in Visakhapatnam
location, AkshayaPatra provides mid-day meal to 21,333 children each day. The mid-day meal in
this location is prepared at a centralised kitchen unit. The cooked meal is then delivered to
schools in customised meal delivery vans with honeycomb racks to avoid food spillage and
insulated body to retain temperature and freshness of the cooked meal till it reaches its
destination. The menu of the school lunch in Andhra Pradesh caters to the South Indian palate.
The menu includes rice, dal (dish made with dried pulses) and nutritious vegetable dishes.
Along with providing food in AP, the organisationin Visakhapatnamalso reaches out to
Anganwadicentres present in the location. In total, AkshayaPatra is currently catering to 190
Anganwadicentres in Visakhapatnam thereby benefitting 36,360 children aged between 0-6
years. With this feeding programme, the NGO is also catering to the nutritional requirements of
children during their early formative years.
AkshayaPatra believes that as a NGO in Visakhapatnam, it is not just eliminating hunger of
21,333 children, rather it is feeding the dreams and hopes of so many thousands children. A
click at Stories of Hope will uncover a world of ambitions and hopes of beneficiaries who
despite numerous hurdles in lives have the perseverance and determination to transform their
present unfavourable life situations to something better and promising.
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Read these stories and get to know the beneficiaries of the mid-day meal in Andhra Pradesh,
who knows you may come across a child who shares your dream or who may aspire to excel in
your field of expertise. This will open up an opportunity to support a child not just by
contributing donations but also by sharing your knowledge and skill. These beneficiaries have
the zeal and determination to learn and achieve, they just await a little support from you. Get
involve with the organisation to know how you can be a part of this noble social cause.
AkshayaPatra indeed is one among the many mid-day meal charity organisations in India but it
is considered to be one of the prominent organisations in this sector of service. The sincerity,
dedication, process and management efficiency and transparency policy of AkshayaPatra in
effectively carrying out the mid-day meal programme has received much appreciation over the
years.Among the many charity organisations in India, AkshayaPatra is the first non-profit
organisation to have achieved a place in the much coveted Hall of Fame of Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India. The Foundation has also been nominated as a member of
National Steering-cum-Monitoring Committee of Mid-Day Meal Scheme thereby receiving an
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opportunity to be amidst the policy makers and furthering the implementation of the mid-day
meal programme.
Choose your way to support this NGO in Visakhapatnam and partake in changing the lives of children at
the grass root level.
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